anybody notice fetchmail in daemon/poll mode doesn't seem to work?

Joe Orton jorton at redhat.com
Tue Feb 24 13:25:50 UTC 2004


On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:27:16AM -0500, Mark Mielke wrote:
> A few weeks ago, I updated fetchmail to devel-list, and ever since, my
> fetchmail configuration no longer functions properly in daemon mode.
> 
> The symptoms seem to be that when fetchmail first starts up, it goes into
> the background, and fetches mail as expected, but then, once it has downloaded
> all new email, it never notices new email again. I "fetchmail -q" and then
> "fetchmail" before reading email as a work around.

Yes, backing down to fetchmail-6.2.0-6 fixed it for me, this is the bug:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115474

joe





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